VIDEO: 'Zombie Nation', images from the streets ravaged by fentanyl

A zombie nation. This is what The Daily Mail has called a visual report taken while traveling throughout the streets of a number of American cities. Streets were fentanyl flows freely, turning the nations citizens into near human remains.

They are seen hunched over, making slow, seemingly purposeless movements, possessed by the drug. Many are just lying on the ground motionless, in one shot, a user is mistaken for garbage bags that have not yet been picked up by the cleaning services.

Several of the images show citizens consuming the drug. Fentanyl is an opiate similar to morphine, but 50 to 100 times more potent. It is used in medicine to treat chronic pain, and for surgical interventions.

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More dead than violence and arms trafficking

But recreational use of this opiate has spread like an epidemic. Sometimes it is consumed alone, but sometimes it is combined with other drugs, such as heorin, which is another opiate. It is also combined with drugs that have the opposite effect, such as cocaine, methamphetamine or MDMA.

According to the CDC, overdose deaths associated with fentanyl have increased fivefold over the past two decades. In 2021 alone, 106,699 people died in the United States. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has stated that fentanyl kills more people than violence and gun trafficking combined. The DEA has seized more lethal doses than there are citizens in the country.